Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing

Page(s):

xviii + 1207

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press

Publication Place:

Washington, DC, USA

ISBN/ISSN:

1-56098-217-9

Notes:

Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing

Reference for:

Zapodinae

Geographic Information

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Comments

Comment:

Comments: The recognition of three genera of living zapodines (Ellerman, 1940; Klingener, 1963; Krutzsch, 1954; R. A. Martin, 1994), which we retain here, has been challenged by Corbet (1978c), Corbet and Hill (1992), and Simpson (1945), who included Eozapus in Zapus. Higher level relationships among zapodines have been addressed by Preble (1899), who described Eozapus and Napaeozapus as new subgenera of Zapus, and by Krutzsch (1954), who supported generic separation based on differences in tooth num...

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